Blog

Thanks for visiting the Godrej India Culture Lab blog. Here, we’ll be putting up some of our own thoughts, as well as the opinions from some of our lab participants – the thinkers, performers, designers, businesspeople, not-for-profit folks that we continuously cross-pollinate through our activities. We hope that reading these blog posts will point you to some interesting ideas about the contemporary India that we live in, as well as inspire you to start new conversations with those in your own lives.

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22 December 2017

We published book extracts, opinion pieces, personal stories and listicles this year! Our top seven includes pieces by Radio Nasha RJ Rohini Ramnathan, prolific filmmaker and journalist Minnie Vaid, film author and journalist Aseem Chhabra and historian Aanchal Malhotra among others. There’s enough reading material to take you into the New Year.

22 December 2017

In 2017, we began to live stream our events so that the conversations taking place at the Lab reach beyond the boundaries of the city. Here are the 3 most spectacular live streams from the year. A big thank you to our partners 24 Frames Digital for making this possible!

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22 December 2017

We marked #HumanRightsDay 2017 with an online adda on the Transgender Persons Bill 2016 with Zainab Patel of Being LGBTI in Asia and Koninika Roy of The Humsafar Trust. The chat looked at the various aspects of the proposed bill and their repercussion for the Transgender community in India.

30 November 2017

Minnie Vaid

3 November 2017

Minnie Vaid uses every medium to speak truth to power and we have an excerpt for you from her book The Ant in the Ear of the Elephant. The book is about the protest against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant. In this touching extract, Minnie Vaid describes the different methods of protest that were used by the people who lived close to the The Koodankulam Nuclear Power plant.

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3 November 2017

We spoke to two online trailblazers - Sofia Ashraf and Put Chutney who are using YouTube as a tool for activism. This Twitter chat was held as a build up to our event Performing Protest, which explored how art is being used as a powerful tool of dissent.